Plopsaland De Panne

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Plopsaland De Panne
Main entrance

Main entrance

place De Panne , BelgiumBelgiumBelgium 
opening April 21, 1935 (Meli-Park)
April 20, 2000 (Plopsaland)
Visitors 1.265 million (2013)
surface 30 hectares
Website www.plopsalanddepanne.be
Plopsaland De Panne (Belgium)
Plopsaland De Panne
Plopsaland De Panne
Location of the park

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 51 ″  N , 2 ° 35 ′ 55 ″  E

Plopsaland De Panne is a theme and amusement park in De Panne on the West Flemish coast on the French border. The Kusttram has a stop in front of the entrance. The park opened on April 20, 2000. Before (from 1935 to 1999) Plopsaland was called "Meli-Park". The park was named after the locations of the children's programs Kabouter Plop and Samson en Gert by Studio 100 .

Plopsaland De Panne mainly offers family attractions: dark rides such as Het Bos Van Plop , de Ploptuin and De Draak or some rides. These usually look like the ones in the TV programs of Studio 100. The children's series are recorded in Plopsaland De Panne. Other attractions include the train, the petting zoo and the carousel .

history

Meli Park

The Meli Park in the summer of 1935 by Alberic Joseph Florizoone, a honey producer , was founded. Bees and beekeeping are a theme throughout the park. From around 1990 the Meli-Park gradually lost its image and its visitors. Therefore, the "Florizoones" sold the park to Studio 100. Meli products can still be bought in some of the park's shops today.

Plopsaland De Panne

Plopsaland De Panne opened its doors on April 20, 2000. All attractions are themed according to one of the soap operas , children's series or the studio's music group . There are attractions from Kabouter Plop, Samson en Gert and Big en Betsy, among others .

In 2006 Plopsaland De Panne opened three new attractions: SuperSplash , SpringFlyer and the K3 Museum . In 2007 the Kabouter-Plop-Zone was renewed with two new attractions. In 2009 the new roller coaster Anubis: The Ride was created . In summer 2011 the new Maya the Bee Land was opened.

Park structure

The park is divided into several parts or zones:

  • Entrance area
  • Leprechaun Plop Garden
  • Castle zone
  • Pirate area
  • "Anubiszone"
  • Wizzy and Woppy Zone
  • "Jumping area"
  • Big and Betsy Farm
  • The fairground of Samson and Gert

The park has five roller coasters without rollover and one roller coaster (Anubis: The Ride) with three rollover and a catapult launch that accelerates from 0 to 90 km / h in less than two seconds. The roller coaster "Dongo's race" (in the Wizzy & Woppy zone) is the oldest in Belgium and was built in 1976. The "SuperSplash" (a water slide) was built in 2006.

Attractions

roller coaster

Surname Type comment Construction year opening
Anubis: The Ride Gerstlauer Launched Coaster Second launched coaster from Gerstlauer 2009 2009
Viktor's Race Zierer Large Tivoli Coaster The entire track was exchanged for the 2014 season and replaced with brand new rails 1976 1976
De Draak Mack Rides Powered Coaster 2004 2004
De Vleermuis Caripro Batflyer 2000 2000
Roller skaters Vekoma Junior Coaster 1990 1990
Heidi: The Ride GCI wooden roller coaster Opening planned for 2016, postponed later 2017 2017

Water rides

Surname Type comment Construction year opening
Wickie The Battle Mack Rides Interactive Water Ride 2012 2013
Waterfietsen Pedal boats
SuperSplash Mack Rides Water Coaster 2005 2006
Het Bos van Plop Water Dark Ride 1972 1972
De Boomstammetjes Mack Rides Log Flume 1988 1989
Kaatje zoekt Eendje Mack Rides boat trip 1999 2000

Other attractions (selection)

  • The swinging tree
  • The falling leaves
  • ROX flyer
  • The coffee cups
  • Balloon Race
  • The pirate boat
  • The frogs

Picture gallery

Web links

Commons : Plopsaland De Panne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://plopsafansite.be/Nieuws/2014-01-08/recordseizoen-in-plopsaland-de-panne/
  2. Plopsaland De Panne postpones "Heidi: The Ride" -opening: New wooden roller coaster only from 2017. In: Parkerlebnis - Freizeitpark-Magazin. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .